Indeed, this wasn't just a problem in "Beyond the Wall" - though it was the most noticeable - but something that recurred throughout the season. Narrative momentum is important to be sure, but there's a point where you're sacrificing realism for spectacle, as /Film's Jacob Hall wrote in his review of "Beyond the Wall." Both Jacob and Ben previously wrote about season 7's increased pacing, but this seems to have been the breaking point for many fans. So I think we were straining plausibility a little bit, but I hope the story's momentum carries over some of that stuff." They seemed to be very concerned about how fast a raven can fly but there's a thing called plausible impossibilities, which is what you try to achieve, rather than impossible plausibilities. I think that worked for some people, for other people it didn't. I think there was some effort to fudge the timeline a little bit by not declaring exactly how long we were there. We tried to hedge it a little bit with the eternal twilight up there north of The Wall. We've got Gendry running back, ravens flying a certain distance, dragons having to fly back a certain distance.In terms of the emotional experience, sort of spent one dark night on the island in terms of storytelling moments. Taylor is aware of the criticisms, telling Variety: "We were aware that timing was getting a little hazy. were facing on their rock, they would not likely have survived that wait. And with the limited resources and freezing cold conditions that Jon and co. But the episode gave viewers the impression that this all took place in one night, not four days. If Gendry could run at the speed of Usain Bolt and the raven flies at 40mph, it would still take about four days for the message to be delivered to Daenerys in Dragonstone and for her to fly beyond the wall and save the day. The distance covered by Gendry (on foot) and a messenger raven (by air) in "Beyond the Wall" would have been roughly 1,500-2,000 miles according to journalists and internet sleuths. Its disregard for geography could be brushed off as nitpicking, but considering the geography was such an essential part of the earlier seasons (season 2 had Arya traveling from King's Landing to the Riverlands for a whopping 10 episodes, and she never even made it!), it feels disingenuous for the series to completely throw that out the window now. For /Film's own Ben Pearson, "Beyond the Wall" was the moment that Game of Thrones jumped the shark.
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